“In the last few years, the orang asli community has undergone an erosionof identity and it is time their rights be returned to them with the resolutionof their land problems.

“I want to stress the need to acknowledge and preserve orang asli landwhich had been seized from them in the last few years,” said the Sultan.

Sultan Sharafuddin also urged the state government to expedite theidentification and gazetting of orang asli land.

“They should be given the land which is rightfullytheirs,” he added.

What a breath of fresh air. ( Read here) I hope the other sultans and Raja ( the white hair rajah of Sarawak) would take a leaf from HRH. Can we, the lesser beings and certainly the even lesser beings of Orang Asal's ( sorry, but the fact that they are not given their rightful land, continously loosing lands via court and logging companies etc. ) ... would dare to hope that there will be a real progress towards granting real rights to those that deserves it.